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It doesn't change the criminality of his actions, but something I haven't ever seen any info about: were the designs he downloaded and took with him for LIDAR s
by ummonk 7y ago
It doesn't change the criminality of his actions, but something I haven't ever seen any info about: were the designs he downloaded and took with him for LIDAR systems that he had played the primary role in developing while at Google or were the designs largely the work of other Googke employees?
- moftz 7y agoHe stole schematics, does a senior executive draw schematics? Likely no. He probably considered it all his own and didn't think about how many people played a role in building this tech.
- bduerst 7y agoDefinitely the latter. Hundreds of employees worked on the LIDAR designs that Levandowski downloaded and took to Otto and Uber.
- rhacker 7y agoThat line of thinking may technically help him substantially. The actual document theft isn't something he can walk away from, but the amount of harm it caused can definitely be argued in court. It is public knowledge he worked on lidar systems prior to working at Google so the scope of the processes and ideas that went into the stolen documents may simply be refinements from his Darpa days. Those refinements could ultimately be argued to be worth a LOT, but it does help his case- IMHO.
- duxup 7y ago>downloaded more than 14,000 files containing critical information about Google’s autonomous-vehicle research before leaving the company in 2016 Just generally as the act has been described it sounds like the information downloaded was pretty massive and wide ranging. It seems unlikely he always "played the primary role in developing" all of it. And really you can debate what that quoted phrase means and what the legal ramifications of that are if you were to presume that he could take the things.